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C5 vibration help

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Now not sure how to describe this one, I have a sort of vibration or shake as if one of thw wheels was buckled but they are all fine. It is worse with hard acceleration but also if pulling away slowly say at 1800-2000 revs. The feeling is as if the engine was misfiring but checked and engine seems to be running fine and revs smoothly at standstill.

The car has had a replacement engine, clutch, duel mass, air mass meter. I did notice a leak on the inner driveshaft boot on drivers side which had lost grease so while it was removed doing the turbo i atempted to plug the hole up.

Could the driveshaft be causing my shake/vibration? Car will cruise fine at 70 with cruise on but do still feel a little shake on the car.

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Get the front in the air and check the front wheels for play, could be a duff bearing or more likely a wobbly track rod end.
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or tyre balancing maybe? wheel
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Wheel balancing done, could a faulty clutch or flywheel cause this? or would it be all the time?
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Cured an oscillating vibration on a Xantia by replacing a driveshaft, after running out of ideas completely.
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I am thinking drive shaft, it is as if the wheel is egg shaped or wheel nuts loose. Can not feel much on the steering wheel, last time all ball joint were check all were ok.

The bottom ball joints, arms, rear bushes drop links were all changed last year and as said new clutch and flywheel this Feb. When I refitted the drive shaft in Feb it was a pain to get seated right and get the small bolts in the middle section back in.
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Hope it's not the DMF. I had a similar problem with a Renault 5 (going back a bit) and a new driveshaft sorted it.
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Does anyone know if the drive shafts were different between models, ie does 1.8 fit 2.2hdi?

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Sadly not... 2.2 appears to have a specific shaft. Lesser engines use the BE4R box and these are differnt again, as are shafts fitted to the auto models.

ML MANUAL GEARBOX
01

3272 EJ

01 DRIVE-SHAFT NEW
LEFT
MARKING 8LN85
- INJECTION ES9J4S
01 LEFT
- DW10ATED TURBO DIESEL
01 LEFT
- DW10ATED TURBO DIESEL PARTICLE FILTER
3272 RA 01 LEFT
- DW12TED4 TURBO DIESEL
02

3273 EJ

01 DRIVE-SHAFT NEW
RIGHT
MARKING 8LN86
- INJECTION ES9J4S
01 RIGHT
- DW10ATED TURBO DIESEL
01 RIGHT
- DW10ATED TURBO DIESEL PARTICLE FILTER
3273 NY 01 RIGHT
- DW12TED4 TURBO DIESEL

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Part Number Description Quantity Price excl. VAT Price incl. VAT Total incl. VAT Selection
00003272RA DRIVE-SHAFT NEW 330.11 GBP 396.13 GBP

00003273NY DRIVE-SHAFT NEW 512.80 GBP 615.36 GBP
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Dam the 2.2hdi...........

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I know The 90hdi and The 110hdi are different size drive shafts....wen I done my clutch I messed up and acidently split The shaft losing a lot of The neadle bearings...went to scrappy and got wat I was told was The right one and got bk and it was thinner...but took out The neadle bearings which were bout 1mm shorter and rebuilt origional...
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taffy wrote:I know The 90hdi and The 110hdi are different size drive shafts....wen I done my clutch I messed up and acidently split The shaft losing a lot of The neadle bearings...went to scrappy and got wat I was told was The right one and got bk and it was thinner...but took out The neadle bearings which were bout 1mm shorter and rebuilt origional...
Ho Ho, those needle bearings are a bloody nightmare. I did the same with the Renault one. Luckily the whole lot was dirt cheap for the little car in those days. #-o
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Ah it was a tricky job lol :) yea we could get anything for a tenner in them days lol!
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new shaft ordered just hope it sorts out my problem.

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Hope it solves it mate :)
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